Bill Diedrich

I have a blue line drawing that I want to have scanned to a CD so that
it can be imported into AutoCad, what format does the scan need to be
for that to happen or is it even possible. It has to be AutoCad, as that is
the program that my designer friend is using.

Bill D.

zedad71

My Feedback: (1)

Your best bet is to ask your designer friend, he is familiar with what he is using. there is no direct import to CAD from a scan. You can import it as a pattern to trace over, but not as entities to manipulate
I have used TIF and PDF files personally

limeybob

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I scan to tiff at 200 DPI, downloaded to a flash drive.

In Autocad. Its "Insert" "Raster image reference"

All Day Dan

My Feedback: (5)

Bill, It's been a while since I have done it but I think I had Kinkos give me a TIFF file and I brought it into AutoCAD with the image command or import. Dan.

Chad Veich

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JPG will work as well but may not have as high a resolution as an image scanned to TIFF.

All Day Dan

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Chad, you got that right. The resolution was very low using the jpg files. I had to use the tiffs. Dan.

CoosBayLumber

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I do this quite often. On an older version of Acad too.

Take your plan plus one empty CD to the blueprint place.

Have them scan only at a rate of 250 DPI and write finished work to the new (empty) disk in some uncompressed TIF format. I ususally take about five projects at one tme.

Go home then. Download and install WinTopo, for tne Softsoft site on Yahoo groups. I use thier standard freebie series One.

After installation of software, then pull up image into the new software and convert. Depending upon how large of file will take either a few seconds or an hour. But let run untill completed. It will ask if you want it out in DXF format or not. Do not save nor alter the image.

Then go to Acad and do a DXFIN command and import your new drawing from a big list.

Resize to what your have measured, and then begin clean-up or tracing.

Over all takes a good ten minutes to go from stage one to here. If you had other things traced, do them tomorow. What ever, donot save or alter the original TIF in any way.


Wm.

dreadnaut

My Feedback: (5)

I use ACAD 2000 and have tried most formats. I have less issue with resolution than I do with processing speed. I prefer TIF, as it seems to work the fastest. jpg is second best. PDF is a major drag on regens. Later versions handle PDF better, but TIF still works best.

Bill Diedrich

Thanks for all of the info guys.

Bill D.

Vampire

My Feedback: (2)

Hi Bill,

Dependent on the version of ACAD you have, in addition to the formats listed already you can also drag and drop in .PDF as well.

I'm in specific ref. to Autodesk ACAD 2007 >.

Can't speak for old versions.

Good luck.